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Music News

New Thursday Album

Thursday are back with a new album which is scheduled for a May release. The release will be called A City By The Light Divided and singer Geoff Rickly has said it is “the album we tried to make with War All The Time”. Their fourth album’s tracklist is:

‘The Other Side Of The Crash/ Over And Out (Of Control)’
‘Counting 5-4-3-2-1’
‘Sugar In The Sacrament’
‘At This Velocity’
‘We Will Overcome’
‘Arc-Lamps, Signal Flares, A Shower Of White (The Light)’
‘Running From The Rain’
‘Telegraph Avenue Kiss’
‘The Lovesong Writer’
‘Into The Blinding Light’
‘Autumn Leaves Revisited’

The group will also play some dates in the UK at the end of May.

May 26th – Oxford Zodiac
May 28th – Manchester Academy 2
May 29th – Glasgow Garage
May 30th – Birmingham Academy 2
May 31st – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
June 1st – London Electric Ballroom

www.thursday.net

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Music News

Matisyahu Tour!

Jewish Reggae artist Matisyahu, has announced 2 UK tour dates. His new album Youth is out at the start of May and if his past work is anything to go by, it’ll be a stunner. Make sure you go and check him out at:

21 May: Manchester University
22 May: London Hammersmith Palais

And check out www.columbia.co.uk/matisyahu for the details.

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Music News

Test Icicles Last Hurrah

The Test Icicles have announced they are going to be releasing a special CD/DVD EP called Dig Your Own Grave to mark the end of their career as a group together. The EP, which comes out on the 24th of April, will have 2 discs, and will include demos, unreleased tracks, remixes, live footage and videos. The track list is:

Audio:
Pull The Lever (Raary’s Ripmix)
Your Biggest Mistake (Unreleased Single Edit)
All You Need Is Blood (Dev’s Mix)
Stuck In The Bend (Unreleased Track)
The Plague + Pestilence (Raary Deci-Hells’ Demo)
Circle Square Triangle (Chromehoof Remix)
Pull The Lever (Jitset Remix)
What’s Michelle Like? (4-Track Demo)
Who Ate All The Offal? (4-Track Demo)

Visual:
Circle Square Triangle
What’s Your Damage?
Circle Square Triangle
Dancing On Pegs (Live At LSE, Oct 2005)
Boa Vs Python (Live At LSE, Oct 2005)
Your Biggest Mistake (Live At LSE, Oct 2005)
Catch It! (Live At LSE, Oct 2005)

Don’t forget they will also be doing a farewell tour, the dates of which are:

18 Apr: Glasgow Garage
19 Apr: Sunderland Manor Quay
20 Apr: Manchester Academy
21 Apr: Coventry Colosseum
22 Apr: London Astoria

www.test-icicles.com

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Music News

Futureheads Tour

The Futureheads have announced a UK tour, to support their forthcoming album News And Tributes. The album is released on the 29th of May, the day they start their tour in Glasgow. The dates are:

29 May: Glasgow Academy
30 May: Liverpool Academy
31 May: Leeds University
2 June: Manchester Academy
3 June: Nottingham Rock Academy
4 June: Keele University
6 June: Norwich UEA
7 June: Bristol Academy
8 June: Southampton Guildhall
9 June: Birmingham Academy
11 June: Cardiff Great Hall
12 June: London Forum

www.thefutureheads.com

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Music News

New Band For Blink Guitarist

Tom Delonge, the former guitarist of now defunct Blink 182, has started a new band with Atom Willard [from the Offspring], Ryan Sinn [formerly of The Distillers] and David Kennedy, his Box Car Racer bandmate. The group, called Angels And Airwaves have announced they will play the Electric Ballroom in Camden on the 27th of April.

The group’s upcoming debut album, entitled We Don’t Need To Whisper, is scheduled for release on the 22nd of May.

www.angelsandairwaves.com has all the rest.

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Music News

New Peaches Album

Always ready to shock, Peaches is set to release a new album to continue her love of the eye-opening. The album, which is called Impeach My Bush and is due out on the 10th of July, features Joan Jett and Josh Homme.

Some of the tracks have typically filthy titles, such as Tent In Your Pants, Fuck Or Kill and Two Guys [For Every Girl]. Can’t say fairer than that!

www.peachesrocks.com

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Skateboarding News

Chet’ll Fix-It

I wonder how many kids wrote to that Jingle-Jangle cigar smoking fashion mistake pensioner, Jimmy Saville, when they had massive holes in their shoes and delams in their decks..? I doubt Jim’s day-glo shenanigans would have been any help.

Well Chet Thomas has studied the problem and come up with this brand new product that can fill in the gaps that make your life as a skater a misery. Fix-It proposes two products: One for repairing delams and holes in your shoes, and the other for cracks in the pavement – The three things that piss off skaters world wide more than anything.

Seeing as previous similar products have been banned because of misuse and toxic ingredients, Fix-It is here to put a stop to any inconvenience you may be experiencing.

For more info, click here: www.fix-it-repair.com

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Music News

FourFront Drum N Bass Tour!

The world’s best DnB artists, Andy C, DJ Marky, DJ Zinc and Roni Size, are to go on a 6 date nationwide tour, which will allow each DJ to have a longer set which goes against the norm of DnB these days. The tour begins in Brighton and will see the DJs being joined by the best MCs going, including the ever brilliant Dynamite MC on a tour that can’t be missed.

Before going on tour, they’ll all be jumping into the studio for an exclusive track. Can’t say much better than that!

The dates are:

Friday 26th May

LOTDB presents Fourfront at Beach Club, Brighton

Sunday 28th May

Fourfront at Ministry of Sound, London

Saturday 3rd June

LOTDB presents Fourfront at Leeds Stylus

Thursday 8th June

Pressure presents Fourfront at Warwick University

Friday 9th June

Metropolis presents Fourfront at Pull the Plug, Sheffield

Saturday 10th June

Overload and Bedlam present Fourfront at Bristol Academy

For ticket info check – http://www.codaagency.com

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Skateboarding News

Alan Glass turns Bro!

Alan Glass (better known as ‘Street Lethal‘ for those of intimacy) has come a long way since his days of solitary confinement in an editing suite for blue movies.

Heroin Skateboards took him in to film the grunts the groans of young boys instead, and he has gone on to produce some amazing videos over the years including Everythings Going To Be Alright and Live from Antarctica..

Fos and the team have decided that Alan deserves a little reward for his hard work in this less glamorous line of business with a Bro-Model. A limited run of 100 Bro Models have been pressed and screened with an homage to the great Jim Phillips Rob Roskopp graphic.

This is surely one of the greatest boards ever made, so lift a gothic goblet to the man of the hour- Alan Glass!

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Live Reviews

Depeche Mode Live

Wembley Arena
02.04.2006

“Enjoy the Synth”

Whilst Playing the angel is making it’s way up the charts, the Basildon synth-poppers headlined at the new Wembley Arena, which has recently seen a £35m facelift. This wasn’t the first time they played the famous venue, and by the sounds of things, definitely not the last!

They kick-started their set with A pain that I’m used to, followed by John the Revelator, two brilliantly composed tunes off their latest album. The stage was set and the atmosphere was electric!!!

Dave Gahan kept fans entertained throughout and started belting out nostalgia for those who lived and experienced Depeche mode in the 80’s! Classics such as Enjoy the Silence, Everything Counts, Policy of Truth, Personal Jesus and many more fit the bill, with recent TOP10 hits Precious and Suffer Well thrown into the mix.

Martin Gore brought the house down with Damaged People and Home, whilst strumming away on his star shape guitar, which was covered in glitter to match his makeup and compliment his black, feathered angel wings.

Andy Fletcher and the 2nd keyboard artist, Peter Gordeno were stood seperately on what looked like silver space donuts, something that could easily have been stolen off the set for Return of the Jedi. Song titles and bizarre lyrics were flashed up on a massive, futuristic like, silver ball that hung from the ceiling with the word SEX lit up in Amsterdam fashion.

It was an amazing show with a sinister set that left me extreme joy! Amazing performance…

“I just cant get Enough”

Grim Candy